Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force

Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force was the title of the head of the Ceylon Defence Force.[1] The post was created in 1888, replacing the position of General Officer Commanding, Ceylon, and existed until 1949 when it was replaced by the position of Commander of the Ceylon Army.

List of Commanders
No. Portrait Rank Name Appointment Left office Unit Decorations
Ceylon Volunteers (1888-1896)
1Lieutenant colonelFrancis Coningsby Hannam Clarke20 April 188827 August 1893Royal ArtilleryCMG, psc, FRGS, FRCI, CLIV
2Lieutenant colonelHenry Byrde28 August 189313 May 189657th Regiment of FootCLIV
Ceylon Volunteers Force (1896-1913)
3ColonelA. F. C. Vincent13 May 18961902Scottish RiflesCMG
MajorH. G. Morris19021902Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3ColonelA. F. C. Vincent190214 March 1913Scottish RiflesCMG
Lieutenant colonelGorden Fraser14 March 191313 May 1913VD, CLI
3ColonelA. F. C. Vincent13 May 191331 May 1913Scottish RiflesCMG
Ceylon Defence Force (1913-1946)
4Brigadier generalR. B. Fell1 June 19136 March 1914Scottish RiflesCB
Lieutenant colonelW. G. B. Dickson6 March 1914?CMR
Honorary Lieutenant colonelEdward James Hayward7 October 1914?CBE, VD, CAV
4Brigadier generalR. B. Fell?31 December 1919Scottish RiflesCB
Lieutenant colonelThomas Howard Chapman1 January 192021 July 1920OBE, VD
5Brigadier generalF. M. G. Rowley22 July 19208 February 1927CB, CMG, DSO
6ColonelAlbion Earnest Andrews9 February 192714 December 1928Hampshire RegimentOBE
Lieutenant colonelG. B. Stevens14 December 192828 April 1929Ceylon Planters Rifle CorpsVD
7ColonelEdward Bromfield Ferrers29 April 19293 March 1935Black WatchDSO
8ColonelRobert Burton Leslie3 March 193512 May 1937Royal Lincolnshire RegimentMC
9ColonelGordon Calthrop Thorne13 May 19375 February 1939Royal Norfolk Regiment
10ColonelReginald Strelley Moresby White6 February 19391 January 1942Leicestershire RegimentOBE
11ColonelT. G. Watson1 January 194219458th King's Royal Irish Hussars
12ColonelR. A. McGeorge19451946The Rifle Brigade
Ceylon Defence Force & Ceylon Volunteers Force (1946-1949)
ColonelRandolph Jewell Francis Mendis6 April 19467 August 1949OBE, ED, BA

See also

References
  1. "Commandants". ceylondatabase.net. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
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